Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 124
Now it came to pass that having no notion of the road she should follow, she completely lost her way.
Who acts: attire, that, Yei · What happens: come, pass, have, follow, lose · To what, where: notion, way
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attire, that, Yei), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 pass | mark |
| 5 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 having | nsubj |
| 7 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 pass | ccomp |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 notion | det |
| 9 | notion | notion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 having | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 road | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 road | det |
| 12 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 follow | obl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 follow | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 follow | aux |
| 15 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 notion | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lost | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lost | nsubj |
| 18 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 19 lost | advmod |
| 19 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 way | nmod:poss |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lost | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | attire | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | attire not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | gerund | that | no notion | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notion=Patient | ||||
| 4 | follow | should | Yei | no notion not said here | of the road | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent notion=Theme of road=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | lose | past | Yei | Yei's way | completely property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Winning Buddha's smile», Project Gutenberg book 78208 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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